Morag Siller as Luce in The Comedy of Errors, with Howard Saddler (Antipholus of Syracuse), centre, and Adam Shaw (Dromio of Syracuse) at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in 2001. Photograph: Donald CooperMorag Siller as Luce in The Comedy of Errors, with Howard Saddler (Antipholus of Syracuse), centre, and Adam Shaw (Dromio of Syracuse) at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in 2001. Photograph: Donald CooperStageObituaryMorag Siller obituaryActor who performed in the stage musicals Mamma Mia! Read More...
BooksMost of us can read, but is there a way to do it better? Faster? With more comprehension or even … joy?
Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast Why read books, in this day and age? “Haven’t we all secretly sort of come to an agreement, in the last year or two or three, that novels belonged to the age of newspapers and are going the way of newspapers, only faster? Read More...
BooksObituarySimon RavenPromiscuous chronicler of upper-class lifeThe death of Simon Raven, at the age of 73 after suffering a stroke, is proof that the devil looks after his own. He ought, by rights, to have died of shame at 30, or of drink at 50.
Instead, he survived to produce 25 novels, including Alms For Oblivion (1959-76), a 10-volume saga of English upper-class life, numerous screenplays, eight volumes of essays and memoirs, including Shadows On The Grass (1981) - " Read More...
